Haidhuru

I’ve been looking at all the end of year lists - the nominees anyway and Time has JK Rowling, Al Gore, Barack Obama, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Condoleeza Rice in the top 5. People has its celebrity list, and assorted magazines will have their nominees based on their readers’ tastes and perversions.

So, help a blogger out and send me some names. It can be someone based in Africa, or not. As long as the person significantly influenced events in Africa. So please let me know in the comments box
- Name of the person
- Why you are nominating them

Please circulate this to as many people as possible as it would be great to see who the power brokers and leaders are from your perspective.

Please nominate someone.
Don’t let the terrorists win

kourous, wobbly (bad!!) dancing to Snap’s “Mary had a little boy”, Capt. Morgan dark rum on the breath, insanely salty (perfect!) chips, strange lighting from Dreams 90Sahara city that made clothes look like they had lint or little white flecks on them…. (more…)

The more I think upon it, the more I think that the one trait that all the people that I admire have in common is that they have the moral courage to hold on to their convictions. I think that if you trawl through history, today’s iconic figures (barring that person of the year who keeps getting kicked out of my public library for surfing for porn *sigh*), or even that guy who lives down that street that you give maximum-respect (po-po-po) to, or even bosses that while you don’t particularly like them, you respect the hell out of them; I’ve found that to a (wo)man, they all have the testicular fortitude to hold on to this central kernel of what they believe in and they are willing to face public ridicule and opposition to stand up for this concept. (more…)

Cribas are crisps but are actually chips. And chips which are chipos are actually fries. Bikis are crackers which are biscuits. But biscuits are actually like scones.

Boots are for feet and trunks are found in cars and on elephants. The roundabout is a rotary and since there be no zebras walking, we dodge cars on crosswalks. The bonnet is the hood and the exhaust is the muffler and well prepared chicks should have at least one wrench which is is a spanner.

Ketchup is for fries as tomato sauce is for cooking pasta. The kio or the shop is the store. Petrol is gas and still costs over $2 a gallon. The first floor is the ground floor and no one uses the lift as they’re all on elevators.

Peanut butter and jelly is peanut butter and jam and what we call jelly is Jello- which means that jam is probably preserves. Purus which are sweets are candy but sometimes chocos are also candy. We don’t take leave, we go on vacation.

Jungus are not Europeans but Caucasian (at least during censuses).

TGIF, thank God, is still “Thank God it’s Friday”

Barikiweni.

There’s this English phrase “screwing like rabbits” which has never quite gelled with my “African” sensibilities. The rabbits or hares of my folklore are sly, clever critters that outwit the malevolent hyenas and hungry lions. More quick thinking, save the day type animals, and less Austin Powers “Let’s shag baby” type animal. This free-loving title shoould perhaps go to the Southern African Cape Whale.
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This one I’ll bet the ranch on.

I’m constantly amazed at how accepting Om (other men) are of past liaisons. A Km (Kenyan man) suspects you used to do the dirty with a guy that he knows?! Watch out!!! It’s that raised eye brow, lip curled in scorn, pointing finger bent like the Donald, just waiting to say “you’re fired”. And then he squints at the man he suspects used to know you biblically, lifts his beer, sips and using his head (or lip!!!!) to point at the chap ‘casually’ asks “That’s the chap you used to dinya, eh?”….

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